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Motherwell school celebrates after receiving top award from UNICEF

Our Lady’s High School celebrated meeting the standard for UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting Schools Gold Award.

Daily Record

It’s important to bring up children in family environment, says Kerala Minister Veena George

Two-day workshop on deinstitutionalisation, family-based alternative care begins

The Hindu

Child marriage comes with a heavy cost for young girls in Africa – but there's one clear way out

650 million women and girls alive today were married before their 18th birthday. That’s one of the startling figures contained…

The Conversation

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Teachers' strike and soaring fees: Lebanon’s public school pupils miss class

School teacher Claude Koteich, her teenager daughter and 10-year-old son should have all been back in class weeks ago –…

Reuters

Lebanon migrant ship death toll rises to 94

Damascus (AFP) - Seventeen bodies were recovered Saturday after a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, raising…

AFP

Death toll of Lebanon migrant ship tragedy rises to 90

Damascus (AFP) - Thirteen more bodies were recovered Saturday after a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off the Syrian…

AFP

Death toll from Lebanon asylum seeker boat tragedy rises to 94

More people are believed to be missing as up to 150 people were on board the small boat that sank…

Al Jazeera

Death toll of Lebanon migrant ship tragedy rises to 89

Damascus (AFP) - Twelve more bodies were recovered Saturday after a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sunk off Syria's coast,…

AFP

89 dead in Lebanon migrant shipwreck off Syria: new toll

Damascus (AFP) - Eighty-nine bodies have been recovered since a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sunk off Syria's coast, Syrian…

AFP

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Pacific Islands brace for prolonged droughts and more flooding as La Niña continues for third year in a row

Some Pacific Island nations are still recovering from floods or facing severe drought conditions, and there is little reprieve in…

ABC News

Is Roger Federer the best? And, would he have been a lesser or greater player without Nadal and Djokovic?

The Swiss tennis ace retires at this weekend’s Laver Cup

The Hindu

Horn of Africa drought puts 3.6m children at risk of dropping out of school

Experts warn that girls’ education will be worst hit, as many families are forced to move away from schools

The Guardian - UK

Secret vaccinations help Zimbabwe mothers protect children

Church members in Zimbabwe are getting their children vaccinated against measles in secret amid a deadly outbreak

The Independent UK

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‘It is beyond bleak’: Pakistan floods affecting 16m children, says Unicef

Devastating conditions were triggered by heavy monsoon rains that have so far killed more than 1,500 people

The Guardian - UK

UNICEF renews Pakistan flood appeal as 10 more people die

Officials say the devastating floods in Pakistan’s worst-hit province have killed 10 more people in the past day, including four…

The Independent UK

11 children reported to have been killed in helicopter attack on school by Myanmar army

Myanmar’s army has reportedly killed 11 children in a helicopter attack on a school in its latest atrocity since seizing…

Irish Independent

11 schoolchildren killed in Myanmar air strike: Unicef

YANGON: At least 11 schoolchildren died in an air strike and firing on a Myanmar village, the UN children's agency…

Bangkok Post

Eleven schoolchildren killed in Myanmar air strike: UNICEF

Yangon (AFP) - At least 11 schoolchildren died in an air strike and firing on a Myanmar village, according to…

AFP

Entertainment: Priyanka Chopra gives empowering speech at UN General Assembly; Check out what she said

Actress Priyanka Chopra addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Monday and spoke in depth about the problems the world…

Dynamite News

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At UN, leaders confront COVID's impact on global education

School disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic have set back children around the globe, from the United States to sub-Saharan Africa

The Independent UK

How Pakistani entrepreneurs stepped in after flood disaster

Dozens of entrepreneurs and non-profits came forward to help as the country was overwhelmed by worst floods in decades.

Al Jazeera

‘Oorum, uyirum’ launched in Wayanad

The programme aims to combat malnutrition among tribespeople

The Hindu

‘Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight

The new Unicef goodwill ambassador would like to see reparations from nations most responsible for climate crisis

The Guardian - US

Who funds CPR, the ‘centrist’ think tank under Income Tax scanner?

The Centre for Policy Research, which has recently come under the tax scanner for alleged irregularities in funding, prides itself…

Newslaundry

New UNICEF Ambassador Seeks to Give Louder Voice to Climate Change Victims

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate recently traveled to the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa to hear from children suffering from starvation.…

Asharq Al-Awsat